what if we filter ourselves into a bubble by choosing to use a site that does it?

hmm, i think you’re overthinking this. what if the recommendation algorithm simply gives you stuff from communities and you’ve subscribed to and “similar” communities (these would have to be linked from the original communities / link to the original communities)?

that should be reasonably easy and not involve any neural networks. i think basically it constructs a “feed” (post list) which is basically a remix of other lists (which are the individual communities that stuff is taken from), maybe weighted with a certain scalar factor.

https://quiblr.com/understanding_your_private_personalized_feed

Unfortunately it’s very spare with technical details. What are the technical details? How much network traffic does it cause for the servers?

that’s great :D

that’s a good idea as well! might consider that.

I want to set up a Lemmy server too (currently still deciding between Lemmy and PieFed) to host some basic content that we create at a university group with the public. It’s more like a blog than anything else, at least as envisioned. I’d also like to add some cool features to it like auto-posting (i.e. we have a bot that automatically uploads certain posts).

“Discuss interesting topics and join communities on the Fediverse.”

IMO it’s better than “link aggregator” because we don’t only share links here, but also images and text.

Also it would be neat if instance admins could automatically set a certain set of “subscribed instances/communities” and “blocked instances/communities” for each new user that signs up on their instance. That would make it easier for instances to give themselves a certain “flavor” so users have an easier time finding interesting stuff.

How about the instance selection wizard (click “join a server” on the homepage), which lets you select topics and languages to select instances. Do the current options make sense?

I do think the “topic”/“language” selection screens make sense overall.

Also what i noticed is that on http://join-lemmy.org/ when you select certain topics (like “Art/literature” and “german speaking”), then the resulting instance list is empty. It might be wise to show at least one instance for every search query, even if it’s not 100% fit. For example, at least display one generic-topic instance for your language or one english-language instance for your topic.

One user told me they got to https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html when they tried to sign up instead of to https://join-lemmy.org/ so maybe it would be good to have an easily-visible link there that brings you to the main landing page?

apt is the one true software/games library for me

also it makes it easier to have an overview over what programs are actually installed on the system. and you can easily set up a computer to have certain packages installed by just giving it a list of package names.

no search indexing

hear me out. how about … there doesn’t need to be a background process that runs constantly and consumes 30% of your processing power and makes the fan spin all the time because it generates so much heat.

worse. windows literally goes to sleep when i close the lid after i told it to shutdown.

so when i boot it up again, what happens? inevitably it wakes from sleep, only to remember that i told it to shut down, then it shuts down. then i have to boot again.

You know i really have been thinking somebody should make a Dungeons and Dragons Luanti Modpack. With an AI dungeonmaster. And maybe you can have dynamic dialogues with NPCs or sth.

wait, it’s minecraft all over again?

maybe the instance admin can “force-flag” communities as political if the community mods refuse to do so themselves …

there already is a politicalmemes community, it’s the only politics community i haven’t banned because it’s the only one that actually manages to make me laugh :P

ATP synthase also happens during sleep.

frankly, i disagree with the “everything is politics” proverb. if i talk about ATP synthase, i don’t consider it politics.